Fast food seems to be the main provider of nutrition for our body these days. The amounts of fast food consumed by children below 14 have increased at tremendous rate from 1980 to 2000. The estimation is that children now consume 10% of their bodies with fast food, and that 10% of fast food contribute to their total energy intake on daily basis.
Compare this to the 2% number of fast food consumption in children in 1980. And for your information, relying on fast food alone won’t meet your body daily requirement of nutrition. The numbers of fast food restaurants have doubled in 20 years and it’s predicted to growth at more alarming rate in the coming years. The reason of this alarming growth rate is due to the bad infestation of fast food restaurants, not only in America, but also in the world.
The fast food giants now also specifically target children in their advertisement campaign too. And now we can see fast food restaurants opening up their branches at public school too. This fast food infestation is believed to be responsible in triggering the obesity and diabetes epidemic in societies. And since a lot of people rely on fast food for their daily nutrition intake its worth knowing the nutritions information that are contained in the fast food.
So let’s get to know well the fast food nutrition information that is currently becoming a part of our daily life. First of all most of the fast food use partially hydrogenated vegetable oil which contribute trans fat to our body. Trans fats are hand-made fats which are made through the injection of hydrogen on unsaturated fat, making it a trans fat. So naturally all fast food products which are made through frying contain a lot of Trans fat.
Research done by feeding monkeys on fast food which contain Trans fat resulted in an increase of the size of bellies of the monkeys. And monkeys fed on unsaturated fat foods which contain the same calories did not show the same increase of size. And the most alarming occurrences are that monkeys fed on fast food show an early sign of diabetes. These Trans fats that are found in fast food have higher probability of causing heart disease than other fats.
Let’s take a look at some of the popular fast food products.
McDonald’s Big Mac and fries
Fat: 12g (per 100g)
Salt:; 0.9g
Sugar: 3.7g
Protein: 9.3
Fibre: 3.2g
KFC two chicken pieces and fries
Fat: 12g
Salt: 0.7g
Sugar: n/a
Protein: 12.2g
Fibre: n/a
Considering the amount of fat available there, obviously the best choices for food in fast foods restaurant are the salad and the grilled meat. Be careful with the dressing; make sure you order it in separate cups so that you can control the amount of additional fat that you are going to eat.
Mc Donald Chicken Caesar Salad
Fat: 6 g (per 100g)
Salt: 0.39 g
Protein: 7g
Sugar: 1g
Fibre: 3g
Subway Veggie Delight sandwich
Fat: 3g
Salt: 0.5 g
Protein: 7g
Sugar: 3.5g
Fibre: 3g
Subway Chicken Savory Sandwich
Fat: 3g
Salt: 0.6 g
Protein: 8g
Sugar: 6g
Fibre: 4g
With such a bad infestation of fast food, now you know what to order when your friends or your colleagues or even your families insist on taking you to the nearest fast food chain. New York City have 23 McDonald’s in Manhattan alone and everywhere in hospitals, airports, train stations and eve high schools, so with this fast food nutrition information you are armed with knowledge to order the least poisonous foods for you.
Linda Mie A former obese girl now sharing her recommendations and reviews of various diet methods available out there. Find out her personal twist and tricks on popular diet methods based on her own experiences for quick and healthy weight loss diet. See also her new guide: the fast food 101.
Tagged with: advertisement campaign • alarming growth • alarming rate • Caesar SaladFat • daily basis
Filed under: Fasting
Like this post? Subscribe to my RSS feed and get loads more!
I agree with Rob. It is very tough to eat a healthy diet in today's “just-in-time” culture, where getting things quickly and cheaply as more value to the product. I try and eat a healthy diet with plenty of fruits, vegetables, healthy meats, and nuts/seeds. The problem with that is that “unprocessing” a food, if you consider processed foods, ironically makes it more expensive and, thus, trying to eat healthy is a very expensive endeavor. If the health trend of America is to change for the better, a cultural change is necessary.
Move over, Big Mac: LYFE Kitchen plans to bring health to fast food | Organic Connections Magazine
cellardoor10 said “I take multiple entrees because I know I can’t trust any of them to be good.”
That is the voice of someone very comfortable in conspicuous food consumption privilege. When was the last time cellardoor10 grew something in a garden? Planned a menu? Went to a grocery store with a list of ingredients? Prepared a meal? Cooked a meal for someone else? I hope “cellardoor10″ gets that opportunity and that the guests show more gratitude for the effort.
raw food restaurants are needed in Hawaii
What get me is even if the food states that it contains “no trans fat”, that may not be the case. Apparently if there is less than .5 grams of trans fat, they can round down to 0 on the nutrition label.
You must check the ingredients on the label to make sure the words “Partially Hydrogenated” followed by any type of oil is not listed.
We are finding more foods with containing no trans fat, but we still need to be very careful.
The website, cuttransfat.org is “Committed to the voluntary elimination of all artificial trans fats by restaurants and the entire food industry”. There are links to many articles offering differing views on the subject. It is a quality site with lots of good information.
The site is also compiling a list of restaurants and food chains that are actively eliminating or reducing trans fats in their menus. [...]
I have the same problem (well, DID). I found a solution that mixes a quart of water, a teaspoon of vegetable or canola oil, and a few drops of Ivory dish soap. I didn't use Ivory, i just used whatever I had on hand. It's only been a day or two but I haven't seen any new bite marks. Shake it all up together in spray bottle and mist both top and underside of leaves. Apparently the vegetable oil drowns the bugs and keeps them off the leaves.
RP’s Cooking Update The Food And Drink Blog » Two Tasty Chili Recipes – One Mild, One …
Food giants invest in pre-competitive research #nutrition
Now that tobacco and trans fats have been discouraged, It's time for Obama to set a target date for the final elimination of all alcohol consumption to ensure the tip top physical and mental health of all Americans, (perhaps by fall of 2012 )
Call for better health info for migrants: The nation's diabetes epidemic is biting deepest into migrant communitie…
Fans speculate. They ponder. The anticipate. The only way for a company not to have a whole bunch of hype to follow is to start the advertisement campaign for the game with “THIS WILL BE BAD COMPARED TO WHAT YOU EXPECT”.
where can I find online food nutrition information?: I have a job in my class, anatomy, and we as nutrition in..
Since when are Christians on a crusade to make the world die of heart disease?
Alarming Rate Of Divorces Among The Tamil Diaspora
Hi
I just came over this blog from a google allert, and read this post. I cannot say exactly what this is, but it might be some kind of inflammation.
Some kind of food can make inflammation worse, and some other can better inflammation: This is an article I wrote some time ago about rheumatic inflammation, but the diet advices in the article are valid for intestinal inflammation too: The advices might help your child to get better.
—————————————
Some Simple Advices about Diet to Fight Rheumatism and Chronic Inflammation
Some types of food can trigger inflammation and rheumatic conditions, and others can ameliorate inflammation and rheumatism. Therefore a proper diet can help reduce rheumatic and inflammatory conditions.
Inflammation is a major component in most rheumatic pain conditions or rheumatic diseases, therefore it is advisable to eat a good amount of food that reduces inflammation and reduce the consumption of food that contains inflammatory agents. Here are some simple dietary advices that may help reduce rheumatic conditions:
THINGS YOU SHOULD EAT TO REDUCE RHEUMATISM
The fat types called omega-3-poly-unsaturated fat and mono-unsaturated fat reduce inflammation and thereby ameliorate rheumatic conditions.
Good sources of omega-3-fatty acids are: fat fish, seafood, flax seeds, perilla, seal meat and oils made from these sources. Seal oil has shown to have an especially beneficial effect by rheumatic conditions. You should eat fat fish at least 2 times a week, and have a meal made of fish or seafood at least every second day. You should use some oils from this group in your dishes in order to get enough omega-6, or take a couple of tablespoons of such oils each day as a medication.
These oils should not be used for frying or warm cooking, they should also be stored cool, and locked. They easily oxidize and react chemically in many ways by exposure to heat and oxygen, and thereby convert to harmful substances.
Good sources of mono-unsaturated fat are: olive, canola, rape, almonds, peanuts, cashew pecan, hickory, hazel nuts, pistachio, macadamia, filbert, avocado and oils made from these sources. These oils can be used for gentle frying and hot cooking, since they are more robust for chemical alternations than omega-3-oils. You should also use some of these oil types in your cooking, and especially olive oil of extra virgin quality.
However, when you add these types of oils to your diet, you should reduce the intake of other types of fat, so that you do not get too much fat.
You should also eat many vegetables, since also these make a body chemistry that reduces inflammation.
THINGS YOU SHOULD NOT EAT TOO MUCH OF
Have only a small consume of oils containing much omega-6 poly-unsaturated acids, like soy oil, corn oil, or oils made from these sources: sunflower, safflower, grape seed, cotton seed, walnut, sesame and wheat germ. The fat in these types of oil increases inflammation.
You should however not stop eating food containing, omega-6-fat, since you need some of this fat type.
Most food you buy that is ready to eat from a factory or restaurant, contain much omega-6-fat. You should therefore reduce the consumption of food you do not cook yourself.
Bread, cereals and products made of corn or cereals also increase the inflammation response, especially if they contain wheat. Wheat causes a special type of inflammation in the intestines called celiac disease in some individuals, but may also trigger inflammation of non-celiac type. However, full-corn cereals and full-corn bread are valuable types of food, so you should not stop eating them. But if you eat bread or corn products at every meal, you should reduce your intake of these and eat more potatoes, beans and peas.
THINGS YOU SHOULD IDEALLY NOT EAT AT ALL
You should absolutely not consume fat that has been chemically altered to give it another consistence. This type of fat has a very negative effect on the health and may be very potent inflammatory agents. Margarine, snacks, fast food and ready made cakes or cookies often contain this kind of fat. Unfortunately this type of fat is also often added to bread. A good idea could be to bake your bread yourself.
Trans fat trong mì ăn liền: ngăn chặn trước khi quá muộn http://www.thanhnien.com.vn/News… [Kiểu này thì tiêu VĐV Vn khi ra nước ngoài thi đấu rồi!]
That makes sense because when they ship them from fancy companies they always have them wrapped in tissue. We use oranges a lot in smoothies, maybe I'll try this. I also am curious about your Menu Plan Monday. When you make that menu do you stick to it? I am going to start doing menu plans and maybe I should do MPM to motivate me! I want to organize my food use in order to budget better. (I made a long post about this). I love that you are blogging again!
This list is based on systemwide sales. Its not based on the food. So it shouldn’t be called “10 Best Fast Food restaurants”. It should be called “The 10 Most Profitable Fast Food Restaurants” because Starbucks ahead of Wendys doesn’t make sense unless you’re talking about profit. If I’m starving and I had a choice between Starbucks and Wendys I’m taking The Baconator over a latte and brownie.
Heart Disease
Heart disease is a hypernym for many kind of different types diseases that affect the heart. Some types of common heart disease are coronary heart disease, cardiovascular disease, heart failure, hypertensive heart disease, inflammatory heart disease, stroke, and congenital heart disease. (anonym1,2008). But generally people just know the stroke as heart disease.
Heart disease is a disease that causing death for both men and women all over the world. The risk factor that contribute to this disease is unhealthy lifestyle, like workaholic, smoking both active or passive, consuming high cholesterol food, drinking alcohol, stress, less of exercise
Now a days, heart disease is the leading cause of death in western society. Like we can see in America, American heart association estimated that 80,700,000 American adults which means one in three have one or more types of cardiovascular disease, 16,000,000 (about 8,700,000 men and 7,300,000 women) Among adults age 20 and older, get the coronary heart disease, and 5,800,000 (about 2,300,000 males and 3,400,000 females) among adults age 20 and older, are stroke. (anonym2, 2008). These all happened because the lifestyle of the western society is supporting the risk factor of heart disease.
Anonym1, 2008, Heart Disease.in Web:
Anonym2, 2008, Statistics. in Web: http://www.americanheart.org/downloadable/heart/1198257493273HS_Stats%202008.pdf -
Diabetes Epidemic and Treatment
RT rel=”nofollow” 8.4 Million New Yorkers Suddenly Realize New York City A Horrible Place To Live http://mobile.theonion.com/article… So, so awesome.
[...] Women’s Health News exposes the spin put on research results by US ‘pro-life’ organisation Operation Rescue. Rachel does a great job of picking apart their argument, and showing it up for the desperate scare-mongering it is. Here’s an example: “As for the point that “Women are dying at an alarming rate from RU486 abortions and its widespread misuse in the abortion industry?” – I suppose that depends on what you call an “alarming rate.” How many U.S. deaths has the FDA reported since the drug was approved in 2000? Six. This FDA Q&A reported that at the time of the 1st four deaths, the drug had been used approximately 460,000 times, for a rate of about .87 (
the whites(governments) have always oppressed other ethnics(look at history). Now they are using Israel as colonial power to oppress the arabs and expand and replace all of palestine with white people. Why do you think USA gives millions to Israel on a daily basis? (israel population is only 7million, this money could be used in the usa) However as we have seen in aparteid south africa this event shall fade some day.
Free water at fast food restaurants, #keepTIP
Interesting! ZAGAT now surveys fast food restaurants! Who do you think made it to the top? #food #restaurants
How about This Food Fact!! 100gr of Parma Ham from Sainsburys: 27.8 gr protein, 0.4 Carbs, and 15.5 total Fat of Which: 7gr Mono-Unsaturated Fat and 3gr PolyUnsaturated Fat .. And.. 5.5gr Only of Saturated Fat!! How Can This Food Labled Bad As Its High In Saturated Fat!?? The Food Standard Agency Is Absolutely No Standard At All When It Comes To Foods!!!
This list is based on systemwide sales. Its not based on the food. So it shouldn’t be called “10 Best Fast Food restaurants”. It should be called “The 10 Most Profitable Fast Food Restaurants” because Starbucks ahead of Wendys doesn’t make sense unless you’re talking about profit. If I’m starving and I had a choice between Starbucks and Wendys I’m taking The Baconator over a latte and brownie.
Ada yang pernah kerja di fast food restaurants ???
Good points. All I know is that there is a heavy advertisement campaign going on where I live against it. You can't watch tv or listen to radio without hearing it. Sponsered by the coal industry no less.
Food giants lose battle over Dispatches claims
the site is looking good Mickel. If anyone reading this is still skeptic, I challenge you to try a box and see for yourself. Remember that this is a food, not a drug, so this can be combined with your daily nutrition intake.
How about This Food Fact!! 100gr of Parma Ham from Sainsburys: 27.8 gr protein, 0.4 Carbs, and 15.5 total Fat of Which: 7gr Mono-Unsaturated Fat and 3gr PolyUnsaturated Fat .. And.. 5.5gr Only of Saturated Fat!! How Can This Food Labled Bad As Its High In Saturated Fat!?? The Food Standard Agency Is Absolutely No Standard At All When It Comes To Foods!!!
New York City. Here i come.
Hi Libia,
Sodium Bicarbonate and vinegar are indeed better choices if you want to play around with pH in the Kitchen. But just FYI, the food industries do use NaOH and HCl to adjust the pH in some cases.
And Dave's right. One needs to check the specifications for the amount of heavy metals and that they are within the acceptable range for food use.